Ralph Kinney

{{Short description|American football player (1881–1956)}}

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{{Infobox college football player

|name=Ralph Kinney

|image=

|birth_date={{birth date |1881|9|30|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age |1956|7|1|1883|9|30|mf=y}}

|death_place=Garfield, Utah, U.S.

|currentposition=Tackle, Guard

|school=Yale Bulldogs

|pastschools=Yale (1902–1904)

|class=Graduate

|highlights=

• 2× Consensus All-American (1902, 1904)

}}

Ralph Parsons Kinney Sr. (September 30, 1881 – July 1, 1956) was an American football player.{{cite book |title=Five Year Record: Class of Nineteen Hundred and Five Sheffield Scientific School |year = 1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0JAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA80 }} He played college football for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1902 to 1904 and was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position in 1902.{{cite web|title=Award Winners|publisher=NCAA|year=2012|page=4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf}} He graduated from Yale in 1905. He managed an orange plantation in Puerto Rico in 1908 and also worked in Texas. In January 1909, he was married to Annie Averill of Beaumont, Texas.{{cite news|title=Star Tackle Is Married: Romance Had Its Beginnings on Yale Gridiron; Former Football Hero Is Now Managing Plantation|newspaper=The Evening News|date=January 8, 1909|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7fYxAAAAIBAJ&pg=3882,272320&dq=yale+ralph+kinney&hl=en}} As of 1920, he was employed by the A.B. Leach & Co. in Cleveland.{{cite news|title=Class of 1905|publisher=Yale University|page=262|year=1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqrOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA262 }}